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Which leading painter of the Realist movement painted Burial of Ornans   Gustave Courbet  
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In works such as Olympia, which realist painter was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to his break with past techniques   Edouard Manet  
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Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of "primitive" island culture such as in The day of the Gods   Paul Gauguin  
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Which artist painted The Large Bathers   Paul Cezanne  
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Which of these works is an example of Rocco?   Fragonard's Bathers  
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Rocco painting can best be characterized by   The Baroque eroticized  
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Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?   Delacroix's Odalisque  
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Romanticism can best be described as   having prioritized stylistic innovation  
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Which of these paintings is an example of Neoclassical art?   David's The Death of Marat  
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Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?   the accurate representation of every day life  
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The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn   during a Plains Indian ritual  
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Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac combines all the compositional tools   Baroque Art  
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Angelica Kauffmann painted in which style that was based on Greek and Roman models/   Neoclassical  
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Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa helped to fuel which style?   Romanticism  
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One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art is   the concept of virtue  
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What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style for his home?   Thomas Jefferson  
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In Romanticism, regardless of the subject matter, paintings revealed the artist's   individuality  
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The Post-Impressionists were united by their interest in what?   extending impressionism's formal innovations  
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In the early nineteenth century, what recurrent and significant theme began to appear in Romantic painting?   the notion of the sublime  
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What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?   The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days.  
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What is the subject matter of most impressionist paintings?   light itself, the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape  
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Romanticist artists, like Frederic Edwin Church, viewed nature as   a literal "sign" for the divine spirit  
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The mid to late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes the changes?   Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon cultures in indigenous societies.  
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Whose "David" ws the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?   Donatello's  
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Sandro Botticelli's paintings, such as the Birth of Venus, reflect his interest in philosophy called   Neoplatonism  
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Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the REnaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals   the personality of the sitter  
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in School of Athens, Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy, signified by the portrayal of what two figures in the center of the composition?   Plato and Aristotle  
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In Hundred of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin HOng, from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century, the peacock symbolizes   The Chinese Emperor  
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The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa, a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?   Baroque  
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The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly electic and individual. The artist is   El Greco  
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Which of the following is an example of High Renaissance painting?   Botticelli's The birth of Venus  
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Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?   Caravaggio's The calling of St. Matthew  
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Coaticue is a deity from which culture   Aztec  
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The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry signified the return of what, lost art since antiquity?   cast shadows  
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In the 1330;s Petrarch conceived of philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual adn the pursuit and study of classical languages, literature, history, and philosophy. Today we call these   humanities  
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Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance in large part due to   the Medici Family  
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What sets northern European artists apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in   rendering believable space in realistic detail  
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Michelangelo's painting, The Last Judgement, for the Sistine Chapel, typifies a style that came to be known as   Mannerism  
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Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral   Brunelleschi  
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The "big 3" of the Italian High Renaissance were   DaVinci, Michelangelo, Raphael  
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Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his style that characterizes the Mannerist style?   his turbulent compoistions  
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What did the early Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since classical antiquitiy   sculpted nude figures  
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Leonardo was known in his time for his work as an artists and as a   military engineer and weapons designer  
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Florentine Renaissance art prioritized the disengno, drawing and delineation of forms, while the Venetian Renaissance art prioritized   the sensuousness of light and color  
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Teotihuacan was in important cultural center for which Meso-american culture   it is non known  
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Machu Picchu was a "getaway" for which cultures'rules   Inca  
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Who was the most influential artist of the Baroque period in Europe   Caravaggio  
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The drawings from Ardeche Gorge are located in   Chauvet Cave  
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The figures from the Abu Temple represent worshipers from what complex society?   Sumer  
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Nike Samothrace is an outstanding example of   Hellenistic realism  
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Sanchi, India has one the earliest surviving examples of   a stupa  
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The She-Wolf, later adopted by Romans as a symbol of their civilization, was, until recently, thought to have been made by which culture?   the Estruscans  
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The colossal head found in La Venta, Mexico was created by which culture   the Olmecs  
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Like much of Egyptian art the statue of the king Khafre shows   rigorous geometry  
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The "Toreador" fresco was created by which culture   the Minoans  
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Found in Austria, the Venus of Willendorf is most likely a   fertility figure  
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The word Neolithic means   New Stone Age  
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Egyptian culture was dedicated to providing a home for what?   the ka  
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neolithic culture developed quickly in teh world's fertile valleys. By 4000 bce, urban societies had developed in   Egypt and Mesopotamia  
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Construction of the Acropolis in Athens began about 450 BCE under the leadership of   Pericles  
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According to Buddhism, the release from worldly desires that ends the cycle of death and reincarnation and begins a state of permanent bliss is called   nirvana  
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Stonehenge in England is an example of what type of monumental stone architecture   megalith  
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The stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi ws created by which Mesopotamian culture   the Babylonians  
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The Palette of King Narmer is historically imiportant because it   probably representsesthe first unification of Upper and Lower Egypt  
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How was sculpture from the reign of the Akhehnaten in Egypt different from previous and subsequent sculpture   it was more naturalistic and informal  
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Classical greek sculpture can best be described as   relaxed poses that sought to depict ideal form  
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According to Roman tradition, when was Rome founded and by whom   753bce by Romulus and Remus  
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What was the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten famous for?   changing the traditional Egyptian religion and art for the first time  
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Architecture and art of the Roman REpublic was heavily influenced by the building styles of which earlier culture   Greek  
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The capitol of the Roman Empire moved in the 4th century, splitting the empire in two. What was the name of the new capital?   Constanitinople  
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The earliest known civilization in India, contemporary with the great civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, is known as teh   Harappan civilization  
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The Great Stupa at Sanchi, India is a typical Buddhist structure. What purpose does it serve?   It houses some of the ashes of the created Buddha and serves as a devotional site.  
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Rococo   a style of art popular in the last three-quarters of the 18th century, particularly in France, characterized by curvilinear forms, pastel colors, and light-hearted, often frivolous subject matter. eroticized version of Baroque.  
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Neoclassicism   a style in the late 18th century and early 19th century that was influenced by the Greek and Roman Classical styles. Classical themes were often employed for subject matter, with an emphasis on virtue and civic responsibility.  
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Romanticism   reaction against of the austere Neoclassic style. arose in early 19th century. favors dramatic , emotional, and subjective art. united by the belief reality is a function of each individual's singular point of view, artist task is to reveal that  
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Sublime   impresses the mind with a sense of grandeur and power, inspiring a sense of awe. distinct from beauty; not concerned with harmony or tranquility, but the force and power of nature. vast and large landscapes with very small people  
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Realism   reaction against Romanticism in the 19th century. desire to describe the world in a way unadulterated by the imaginative and idealist tendencies of the Romantic sensibility. subject matter of every day life in a realist  
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Impressionism   movement in the 19th century France where artists used discontinuous strokes of color meant to reproduce the effects of light. capture a fleeting moment by conveying the allusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions  
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Renaissance   14th to 16th century characterized by a revival of interest in the arts and sciences that had been lost since antiquity  
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High Renaissance   classical tradition, 30 yr period, ideal balance between stillness and moment, commissioned by teh public and the state, beauty and truth, exceeded reality, window into divine inspiration  
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humanism   during Renaissance, emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge, importance of the individual, commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty  
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mannerism   italy 1525, dramatic use of light, exaggerated perspective, distorted forms and vivid colors  
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allegory   characters or events symbolize greater ideas and concepts, large and complex ideas to be narratively told in a simpler form  
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Baroque   ornate forms, disregard for classical principles of composition, dramatic, theatrical , against the Protestant Reformation, determined effort by the Vatican to turn Rome into the greatest city on earth  
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